Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (822 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:35:22PM -0400, Kevin Valko wrote:
> Saw this brilliant post from Marcus Meissner about speeding up the package 
> management stack (link:  http://marcusmeissner.livejournal.com/13428.html ;)
> 
> I tried this myself, and saw a dramatic improvement.  I've used openSUSE 10.3 
> since Alpha 5 or so, and I guess all the refreshes of factory and KDE4 
> cluttered the cache files, because when I ran the steps above it pretty much 
> cut my file sizes in half and Yast package management once again ran as fast 
> as when I initially installed 10.3.
> 
> I also posted it on suseforums.net for feedback, and it seems to be positive.
> 
> I understand that factory refreshes place a non-standard "load" on the package 
> manager, and that most users of 10.3 Final will not be placing as high a load 
> on the package manager, but if this addresses a flaw that is intrinsic to the 
> way zypper and rpm operate, is it worth maybe creating a standard script via 
> cron job that "cleans" the package manager on a regular basis (weekly, 
> monthly, whatever) ?

Just one side note.

My Laptop has 256MB only. A 512MB or 1GB machine would have
not that much time difference, just because the files are larger.

The machine is also from 2002, newer harddisk might be faster.

"rpm --rebuilddb" ... I guess running it once every 1000 package updates
is sufficient. THis is however difficult to measure ;)

Ciao, Marcus
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